Libya Stands Firm Against Threat Of New Sanctions

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November 13, 1993

CAIRO, EGYPT — Libya stood its ground Friday, charging that new U.N. sanctions are meant to harm the Libyan people and not to end the dispute over trying two Libyan suspects in the 1988 bombing of a Pan Am jetliner. In a Foreign Ministry statement, the government of Moammar Gadhafi repeated its insistence it is willing to see the two suspects tried. But it also repeated Ghadafi's contention that he cannot force the men to give themselves up, a statement doubted by many experts on Libya. The new sanctions, taking effect Dec. 1 if Libya does not surrender the two men, would freeze Libyan assets abroad and ban sales of some oil equipment to the North African country.